http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/134/12/3427S?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=fatty+acid+cancer+human&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT



Edited by Jo Harker (07/10/2009 07:42 PM)
Edit reason: checked...link works

I did have that one, but this is EXACTLY what I am looking for! Thank you! More!

This should be re-titled "Omega 3: 101/EFA School".

I just got thoroughly educated.

Thanks Connie.:smile:

Yeah. Doncha just love this stuff?

http://www.omega3fishoil.com/news.html

(this is just a great snapshot site)http://www.nvo.com/shildtfinancial/sv003data/

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/topics/essential-fatty-acids.aspx


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/144793.php

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/4/403%20 <---disagrees...but older citation

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Gastroenterology/ColonCancer/2545

http://www.eufic.org/page/en/page/LS/fftid/cancer-fish-functional-foods/

thats all for now,,, storm

 Quote: connie sutherland

Covered in three of the links.

5 to 1 (6s to 3s) on a typical big-ag poultry diet would work out to about the 1-gram-per-ten-pound dose. 10 to 1 (older sources) would work out to about a gram per twenty pounds.

Sorry to keep harping on this, but I am a little slow. Compounding my relative intellectual thickness is my ineffectiveness as a researcher. Please indulge me the follow up comments and questions:

My reading of the "5 to 1" ratio in the articles cited, refers not to the dosage per pound but the relationship between Omega 6s and Omega 3s. If I am wrong about this, would someone please explain it to me?

I have researched on the web since yesterday and have been unable to find a definitive source for the recommended dosage of fish oil per pound of body weight. I have seen anywhere from 1000 mg per pound to 40-50 mg per 4 kilograms of body weight.

There must be several sources, supported by scientific studies, that recommend a dosage of Omegas or fish oil per pound of canine body weight.

If anyone has this information, please provide a link or citation.

Again, I don't mean to beat this into the ground, but I am now concerned about giving the optimal dosage to my dogs.

BTW, yesterday I emailed Dr. Bruer author of the Purdue University article and several research papers on the site Connie provided. Hopefully he will reply. I will surely pass along whatever I learn from him.

 Quote: eric sacks

... There must be several sources, supported by scientific studies, that recommend a dosage of .... fish oil per pound of canine body weight.

They are given on the order of "per ten pounds" (occasionally "per fifty pounds"); the amount per one pound would be unmeasurable by any practical method, but if you want the amount per one pound, just take a tenth of the amount per ten pounds.

 Quote: eric sacks

... have been unable to find a definitive source for the recommended dosage of fish oil per pound of body weight.

I should add that you're really not going to find "the definitive amount," any more than you will be able to find it for humans.

For one thing (a big thing), the ideal amount of Omega 3s would be expressed as a ratio to the Omega 6s in the diet. So the doses are all guesses anyway, and even if the prescriber did know the individual's diet (including all the EFA types and amounts), it would be the opinion of the prescriber that would inform the 5:1, 10:1, etc., ratio.

Even from the top manufacturers of fish oil (Nordic Naturals and the like) you will find dosages (for humans) on the labels that range from a gelcap per day to two teaspoons (around ten gelcaps' equivalent) per day.

And in nutrition books, such as from Dr. Oz, Dr. Weil, and so on, you will not see any closer conformity.

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

You saw 1000 mg PER POUND of body weight? Can you link me to that?

Sorry Connie, I meant to put per 10 pounds. Told ya I was thick.